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  2. Parvenu - Wikipedia

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    A social climber is a derogatory term that denotes someone who seeks social prominence through aggressive, fawning, or obsequious behavior. [1] The term is sometimes used as synonymous with parvenu , and may be used as an insult, suggesting a poor work ethic or disloyalty to roots.

  3. Social climber - Wikipedia

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  4. Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber - Wikipedia

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    Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (also known as The Social Climber) is a 2005 American romantic comedy television film directed by Dana Lustig, based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Adèle Lang. [1] It premiered on Oxygen on March 12, 2005, and stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as 28-year-old Katya, an advertising executive more concerned with being a well-known socialite than being ...

  5. A Gentleman's Guide to Social Climbing - AOL

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  6. "Social climber." Those two words are at the heart of a debate in Season Seven of "Selling Sunset," which seems to poke at the real estate agents' insecurities about their careers and whether ...

  7. Jim Gaffigan on adjusting to the painful new reality: "How ...

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    And I'm an adult. I have children that are counting on me. I mean, they don't listen to me, but I can't just curl up in a ball and mope. Sometimes I'm embarrassed how detached I feel about it.

  8. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to social mobility and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.

  9. Crab mentality - Wikipedia

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    Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, [1] [2] crabs in a bucket [a] mentality, or the crab-bucket effect, is a mentality of which people will try to prevent others from gaining a favourable position in something, even if it has no effect on those trying to stop them.